Frances Deepwell

Frances joined OCSLD as an educational development consultant in 2008. Her responsibilities include the development of a continuing professional development framework to support learning and teaching. Within this broad brief, she is editor of teaching news, co-convenor of the Minerva Forum, key contact for the National Teaching Fellowship and Brookes Teaching Fellowship schemes and course leader of the Associate Teachers Course. She is also a tutor on the Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education.

She has a first degree in German Studies from University of Manchester, a Masters from the University of Kent and a PhD (by publication) from Coventry University in 2008, on the implementation and evaluation of e-learning. She has worked and researched learning innovation since 1990, initially in Modern Languages and Geography and latterly in Higher Education development.

Her research interests include programme and project evaluation; continuing professional development; institutional innovation and change; e-learning implementation. Current projects include: the Socio-political impact of learning in immersive worlds (Leverhulme Trust) and editing the iPED Research Network book: Academic Futures: Inquiries into Higher Education and Pedagogy.

Frances is a Fellow of SEDA and Chair of its Scholarship, Research and Evaluation Committee; she is a member of the editorial board of the SEDA journal IETI.